A weekend home improvement project shouldnâEUR(TM)t expose you or your family to dangerous chemicals. But right now you can walk into The Home Depot and buy paint strippers containing highly toxic chemicals.

Temp workers face enormously elevated dangers in the workplace, as a running investigatory series by ProPublica in collaboration with Univision shows. Those dangers are in addition to the low wages and unstable employment. Now one has been killed!

The possibility that an active fault runs below the No.1 reactor at Hokuriku Electric Power Co.'s Shika nuclear plant has grown increasingly likely. If the fault were to move, the nuclear plant could suffer damage.

Last spring, Haiti's minister of agriculture gave agribusiness giant Monsanto permission to 'donate' 505 tons of seeds to Haiti 'to support the reconstruction effort'. A year later, Beverly Bell asks what has become of the seeds that Monsanto gave, and >>

Japan's economic circles have criticized the looming suspension of Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear plant, saying it could further escalate production disruptions in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Colombia- most dangerous place in world for trade unionists- since 1986, 2,500 have been killed. Coke claims not liable for murders at Coke bottling plants, but holds secret talks to pay for silence & unions' disappearance. Verdict scheduled 2009.

First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it's taking on intelligenceThe operation, Total Intelligence Solutions, has assembled a roster of former spooks -- high-ranking figures from agencies such as the CIA